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TIL there’s a school in Sweden with compulsary Minecraft lessons

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JYMWm TIL the depiction of Jesus as fair skinned, with fair hair and beard and light colored eyes comes from the Letter of Lentulus. Lentulus falsely claimed to be governor over Judea while Jesus was alive, and made up the description to impress a friend.
Z8ybD TIL that in 1862 President Lincoln had to politely decline an offer from the king of Siam to send the United States a herd of elephants for use in the Civil War against the Confederacy.
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